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Washington, December 12<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n President Donald Trump lambasted the Supreme Court on Saturday for declining to take a case he hoped would overturn President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s election victory and called Attorney General William Barr a \u201cdisappointment\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The nation\u2019s high court late on Friday rejected an unprecedented lawsuit by Texas seeking to throw out voting results from four states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The decision comes ahead of a meeting by the US Electoral College on Monday to make Biden\u2019s victory official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump, a Republican, has refused to concede despite losing to Biden. The Democratic former vice president won 306 votes to Trump\u2019s 232 in the state-by-state Electoral College, which allots votes to all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Supreme Court had ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on the United States of America,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning, calling the decision a \u201cdisgraceful miscarriage of justice\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump has alleged widespread election fraud without evidence while Biden has proceeded to plan his administration, appointing senior advisers and making cabinet picks despite the president\u2019s efforts to undermine his legitimacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump had touted the Texas case as a potential game changer in his efforts to overturn the election result and openly called on the Supreme Court and state legislators to help. More than 100 Congressional Republicans and 17 states signed onto the lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But in a brief order the court said Texas did not have legal standing to bring the case. The three justices nominated by Trump \u2014 Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh \u2014 signed on to the order without comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trump campaign and its allies have filed dozens of lawsuits challenging the vote count in numerous states, but state and federal judges have rejected almost every one. Trump has shown little interest in giving up despite the repeated court defeats, writing on Twitter on Saturday, \u201cWE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n WISCONSIN SUIT SHOT DOWN<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Saturday in Wisconsin alone, Trump lost a federal lawsuit even as sceptical state Supreme Court justices grilled one of his lawyers in another case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US District Judge Brett Ludwig, a Trump appointee, threw out what he described as the president\u2019s \u201cextraordinary\u201d effort to overturn the state\u2019s results in his favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPlaintiff asks that \u2018the Rule of Law be followed,\u2019\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cIt has been.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, a Trump campaign lawyer, Jim Troupis, faced tough questions from members of the state\u2019s high court over a separate effort to invalidate the results in two Wisconsin counties, Dane and Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis lawsuit, Mr Troupis, smacks of racism,\u201d Judge Jill Karofsky said during the hearing, noting that both counties are heavily urban, ethnically diverse and Democratic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The President also lashed out at his attorney general on Twitter after the Wall Street Journal reported that Barr knew earlier this year about an investigation into Biden\u2019s son Hunter\u2019s taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a statement released by the president-elect\u2019s transition team, Hunter Biden said on Wednesday that the US Attorney\u2019s Office in Delaware was investigating his tax affairs, which he said he had handled \u201clegally and appropriately\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump retweeted a comment from radio host Todd Starnes saying Barr should be fired. \u201cA big disappointment!\u201d Trump said in his tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barr\u2019s fate in the waning days of the Trump administration has been in question since he said last week that a Justice Department investigation had found no sign of major fraud in the November election, contradicting Trump\u2019s false claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conservative groups supporting Trump rallied in Washington and elsewhere around the nation on Saturday to press the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After spending the morning tweeting, Trump left for West Point, New York, to attend the Army-Navy football game, flying over cheering demonstrators in the Marine One helicopter on his way to Joint Base Andrews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Biden was spending the day in Delaware, his home state, where he has been planning his transition. He attended church in the afternoon, wearing a protective boot on the foot he fractured recently while playing with one of his dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a Twitter post, the President-elect heralded Saturday\u2019s anniversary of the adoption of the Paris climate accord. Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement but Biden has vowed to reverse that move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFive years ago today, the world gathered to adopt the Paris Agreement on climate change. And in 39 days, the United States is going to rejoin it,\u201d Biden wrote on Twitter. \u201cWe\u2019re going to rally the world to push our progress further and faster and tackle the climate crisis head-on,\u201d he wrote in another tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Biden has identified recovering from the coronavirus pandemic, reviving the economy, and fighting climate change as key priorities once he takes office. Reuters<\/p>\n